Oscar Grant mural to be unveiled Saturday at Fruitvale...

1of2Wanda Johnson (right), mother of the late Oscar Grant, is embraced by BART's District 7 board director Lateefah Simon after a vote to name a street Oscar Grant Way on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in Oakland, Calif.Photo: Santiago Mejia / Julie Wedge

2of2Tatiana Grant (center), daughter of Oscar Grant III, prays at the BART Fruitvale Station during a vigil on the 10 year anniversary of Grant’s death in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, January 1, 2019. Grant III, 22, was fatally shot by a BART police officer during the early hours of New Year’s Day a decade ago.Photo: Yalonda M James / The Chronicle

A man shot by a BART police officer ten years ago will soon be memorialized beneath the platform where he lay bleeding while shocked onlookers filmed the incident on their cellphones.

On Saturday, transit officials and family members of Oscar Grant will unveil a new mural commemorating him at Fruitvale Station. They will also present new street signs to rechristen a strip of road where taxis pull in, just west of the station. It’s now called Oscar Grant III Way.

Board Director Lateefah Simon, who has long fought for the mural, described it as part of a national reckoning with black men who are victims of police violence.

“When someone enters that space, they’ll see a physical manifestation of a government and a community trying to heal,” she said. Simon runs the Akonaki Foundation, a social justice nonprofit that offers grants to smaller organizations. Last year it provided $15,000 to the Oscar Grant Foundation, which is run by Grant’s uncle.

Grant’s death touched off a national debate on police conduct and spread a new form of witness documentary. The shooting happened early in the morning on New Year’s Day, in front of a train packed with revelers who trained their cellphones on the platform. Several bystanders uploaded the footage of YouTube where it quickly went viral.

It incited demonstrations in Oakland and led to major reforms in BART’s police department, including the hiring of an independent auditor.

The family put that idea on hold to focus on the mural project and street renaming, but it’s still alive, Johnson said. She hopes to pursue plans for “Fruitvale-Grant Station” — or “Grant Station” — later this year.

The celebration starts Saturday at noon at Fruitvale BART Station, 3401 E. 12th Street, Oakland. It will include food trucks, speeches and activities for kids.

Rachel Swan covers transportation for The Chronicle. She joined the paper in 2015 and has also reported on politics in Oakland and San Francisco.

Previously, Rachel held staff positions at the SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, where she covered technology, law and the arts. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.